If you missed the Fox Toledo/UTMC town hall about the swine flu, you ought to check it out online.

I thought it was a good talk about a topic that many people think is way too hyped.

I did get a chance to ask a question that a lot of people wanted to know: Is the media hyping this thing too much?

Now since I am part of the media, you might have some skepticism about the way I took the answer, but what I gathered is that there is a lot of unknown about the H1N1 virus.

So I look at our coverage as giving people a lot of different pieces of information about a topic even doctors say is very much a day to day illness that changes rapidly.

Sure the media can take a beating sometimes and I think sometimes the media deserves it.

But in this case, I think we, here, have practiced a lot of reserve and tried not to feed to the hype. I know some people like to lump all the media together, which is unfair. All I can look at and speak on is my shop.

PS…. Phillies in 5.